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Mauritania
Coastal Mauritania

Nouakchott

Nouakchott is the capital of and its largest city, with almost 1.2 million residents in 2019. The city is the hub of the Mauritanian economy and is home to a deepwater port and Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, one of the country's two international airports.
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  • Type: City with 958,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Mauritania
  • Also known as: “Capital of Mauritania”, “Nawakshut”, “Nawākshūṭ”, “Nouakchat”, “Nouakchot”, “Nouakchott, Mauritania”, “Noukchott”, “Nuwakshut”, and “Nuwākshūṭ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include G5 Sahel and National Museum of Mauritania.

Government office
or G5S was an institutional framework for coordination of regional cooperation in development policies and security matters in . It was created on 16 February 2014 in Nouakchott, Mauritania, at a summit of five countries: , , , , and .

Museum
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as the National Museum of Nouakchott, is a national museum in Nouakchott, . It is located to the southwest of the Hotel Mercure Marhaba, west of Hotel de Ville, northwest of Parc Deydouh, and northeast of the Mosque Ould Abbas.

Library
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de Mauritanie is located in Nouakchott, in the building of the . The library has a collection of 10,000 volumes and employs 41 staff members. The library has seven branches.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arafat and Sebkha.

Town
is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western . It is the capital of Nouakchott-Sud Region and had a population of 216,919 in 2023.

Suburb
is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western . It has a population of 72,245. The football teams ASC Nasr de and ASC Socogim are based there.

Suburb
, Mauritania is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western . It has a population of 43,531.

Nouakchott

Latitude
18.0792° or 18° 4′ 45″ north
Longitude
-15.978° or 15° 58′ 41″ west
Population
958,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
NKC
United Nations Location Code
MR NKC
Open location code
7CC632HC+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249166495
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2377450
Wiki­data ID
Q3688
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Nouakchott” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Adyghe: “Нуакшот”
  • Afrikaans: “Nouakchott”
  • Albanian: “Nouakchott”
  • Albanian: “Nuakçot”
  • Amharic: “ኑዋክሾት”
  • Arabic: “انواكشوط”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة موريتانيا”
  • Arabic: “نواقشط”
  • Arabic: “نواقشوط”
  • Arabic: “نواكشط”
  • Arabic: “نواكشوط”
  • Arabic: “نوق الشط”
  • Aragonese: “Nouakchott”
  • Armenian: “Նուակշոտ”
  • Asturian: “Nouakchott”
  • Asturian: “Nuakxot”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuakşot”
  • Balinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Bashkir: “Нуакшот”
  • Basque: “Nuakchot”
  • Basque: “Nuakxot”
  • Belarusian: “Нуакшот”
  • Bengali: “নউকচোট”
  • Bengali: “নুওয়াকশুত”
  • Bosnian: “Nouakchott”
  • Breton: “Nouakchott”
  • Bulgarian: “Нуакшот”
  • Catalan: “Nouakchott”
  • Cebuano: “District de Nouakchott”
  • Cebuano: “Nouakchott (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Nouakchott”
  • Central Kurdish: “نواکشۆت”
  • Chechen: “Нуакшот”
  • Chinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Chinese: “努瓦克肖特”
  • Chinese: “諾克少”
  • Cornish: “Nouakchott”
  • Croatian: “Nouakchott”
  • Czech: “Nawakšút”
  • Czech: “Nawākšūṭ”
  • Czech: “Nouakchott”
  • Czech: “Nuakšott”
  • Danish: “Nouakchott”
  • Dutch: “Nouakchott”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نواكشوط”
  • Esperanto: “Nuakŝoto”
  • Estonian: “Nouakchott”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nouakchott”
  • Finnish: “Nouakchott”
  • French: “Nouakchott”
  • Fulah: “Nouakchott”
  • Ga: “Nouakchott”
  • Galician: “Nouakchott”
  • Georgian: “ნუაქშოტი”
  • German: “Nouakchott”
  • Greek: “Νουακσότ”
  • Greek: “Νουαξότ”
  • Guarani: “Nuakechóte”
  • Gujarati: “નયૂવાક્ચોટ”
  • Haitian: “Nouakchot”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Hausa: “Nouakchott”
  • Hebrew: “נואקשוט”
  • Hindi: “नवाक्शूत”
  • Hindi: “नुआकशॉट”
  • Hindi: “नुआकशोत”
  • Hungarian: “Nouakchott”
  • Icelandic: “Núaksjott”
  • Ido: “Nouakchott”
  • Inari Sami: “Nouakchott”
  • Indonesian: “Nawakshut”
  • Indonesian: “Nouakchott”
  • Interlingua: “Nouakchott”
  • Interlingue: “Nouakchott”
  • Irish: “Nouakchott”
  • Irish: “Nuacsat”
  • Italian: “Nouakchott”
  • Japanese: “ヌアクショット”
  • Javanese: “Nouakchott”
  • Kabiyè: “Nuwakicɔɔtɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Nwaqcuṭ”
  • Kannada: “ನೌಕ್ಚೋಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Нуакшот қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Нуакшот”
  • Kirghiz: “Нуакшот”
  • Kongo: “Nouakchott”
  • Korean: “누악쇼뜨”
  • Korean: “누악쇼트”
  • Kotava: “Nouakchott”
  • Kurdish: “Nuakşot”
  • Kurdish: “Nûakşot”
  • Latin: “Nouakchott”
  • Latvian: “Navākšūta”
  • Latvian: “Nawākshūṭ”
  • Latvian: “Nouakchott”
  • Latvian: “Nuakšota”
  • Ligurian: “Nouakchott”
  • Lithuanian: “Nuakšotas”
  • Livvi: “Nuakšot”
  • Lombard: “Nouakchott”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nouakchott”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nouakchott”
  • Macedonian: “Нуакшот”
  • Malay: “Nouakchott”
  • Malayalam: “നൌവാക്ക്ച്ചോട്ട്”
  • Marathi: “नवाकसुत”
  • Mazanderani: “نواکشوط”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Minangkabau: “Nouakchott”
  • Mingrelian: “ნუაქშოტი”
  • Moksha: “Нуакшот”
  • Mongolian: “Нуакшот”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نواكشوط”
  • N'Ko: “ߣߎߥߊߞߑߛ߭ߐߕ”
  • Navajo: “Níyoltah”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nouakchott”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nouakchott”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nouakchott”
  • Norwegian: “Nouakchott”
  • Novial: “Nouakchot”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nouakchott”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nuakshut”
  • Ossetian: “Нуакшот”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੁਆਕਚੋਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Nouakchott”
  • Persian: “نوآکشوت”
  • Persian: “نواکشوت”
  • Piemontese: “Nouakchott”
  • Polish: “Nawakszut”
  • Portuguese: “Nouakchott”
  • Portuguese: “Nuaquechote”
  • Portuguese: “Nuaquexote”
  • Pushto: “نواکشوت”
  • Romanian: “Nouakchott”
  • Russian: “Нуакшот”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱚᱣᱟᱠᱛᱥᱩᱛ”
  • Sardinian: “Nouakchott”
  • Scots: “Nouakchott”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nouakchott”
  • Serbian: “Nawākšūṭ”
  • Serbian: “Нуакшот”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nouakchott”
  • Shona: “Nouakchott”
  • Silesian: “Nawakszut”
  • Sindhi: “نوآڪ شوط”
  • Sinhala: “නොවැක්චොට්”
  • Slovak: “Nouakchott”
  • Slovenian: “Nouakchott”
  • Somali: “Nawakshot”
  • Spanish: “Nuakchot”
  • Swahili: “Nouakchott”
  • Swedish: “Nouakchott”
  • Tagalog: “Nouakchott”
  • Tagalog: “Nuakchot”
  • Tajik: “Нуакшот”
  • Tamil: “நவாக்சோட்”
  • Tamil: “நுவாக்சூத்”
  • Tamil: “நுவாக்ஷாட்”
  • Tamil: “நோவக்க்கோட்”
  • Telugu: “నౌవాషోట్”
  • Thai: “นูอากช็อต”
  • Thai: “นูแอกชอต”
  • Tibetan: “ནའུ་ཀ་ཅོ་ཊི།”
  • Turkish: “Nuakşot”
  • Turkmen: “Nuakşot”
  • Udmurt: “Нуакшот”
  • Ukrainian: “Нуакшот”
  • Urdu: “نواکشوط”
  • Uzbek: “Nuakshot”
  • Venetian: “Nouakchott”
  • Veps: “Nuakšot”
  • Vietnamese: “Nouakchott”
  • Volapük: “Nävakjut”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nouakchott”
  • Welsh: “Nouakchott”
  • Western Frisian: “Nouakchott”
  • Western Mari: “Нуакшот”
  • Western Panjabi: “نواکشوط”
  • Western Panjabi: “نوواکوٹ”
  • Wolof: “Nouakchott”
  • Wolof: “Nuwaaksot”
  • Wu Chinese: “努瓦克肖特”
  • Xhosa: “Nouakchott”
  • Yiddish: “נואקשאט”
  • Yiddish: “נואקשוט”
  • Yoruba: “Nouakchott”
  • Yue Chinese: “努瓦克肖特”
  • Yue Chinese: “或索”
  • Zulu: “i-Nouakchott”
  • “ma tomo Nakeso”
  • “Nuakchot”

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